Hillsborough (NC) Recorder
July 17, 1861
Page 3
The 11th Regiment—The
eleventh North Carolina
Regiment, now rendezvousing at Danville,
elected for Field Officers Lieut. W. W. Kirkland, late of the United States
army, Colonel; Capt. James M. Leach, Lieutenant Colonel; and Capt. M.
Richardson, of the Military Institute in this place, Major. They will all doubtless make able and
efficient officers. Col. Kirkland has
had long experience in the service of the United
States; Lieut. Col. Leach was two years at West Point; and Major Richardson has earned for himself a
good reputation as a military teacher in the Institution here.
[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]
